Neil Zolot / Special to the Melrose Free Press
The School Department and Department of Public Works are planning needed capital projects for Fiscal Year 2022 and beyond, totaling millions.
“We’re glad to get to some of the projects we were not able to last year because of COVID,” Superintendent Julie Kukenberger said at the School Committee meeting Tuesday, June 22, the first at City Hall in over a year.
“I’m amazed at the projects we plan to do, but also a little nervous,” DPW Director Elena Proakis Ellis admitted. “It’ll be tough to get through that much work, but we’ll try. We’re sort of starting at ground zero because of COVID. Each year we’ll chip away at it little by little.”
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Every morning I check the forecasted high and low temperatures in all the places where I have family and friends. I like imagining something about their day by knowing something about their weather. But I didn’t check the air quality index until this last year in September when smoke was closing in on my friends in Eugene and Bend, Oregon, and my sister and her family in Moscow, Idaho. Smoke from wildfires blotted out the sun. Turns out 2020 was the worst year for air quality in Oregon since 1968, when AQI records began.
There are five categories the National Weather Service uses to designate air quality: from green (satisfactory 0-50 AQI; little health risk) or yellow (51-100; risk to some people sensitive to air pollution) through orange (101-150) and red (151-200) to purple (201-300; very unhealthy for everyone) and maroon (301-500; hazardous and a health emergency). On Sept. 13, Eugene’s AQI was 457; on Sept. 12, Bend’s was over 500, off the AQI scale.
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Wellesley receives grant for Complete Streets Funding Awards
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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, on behalf of the Baker-Polito Administration, recently announced that $4.6 million was awarded to 12 communities in the fiscal 2021 Round 1 of grants for the Complete Streets Funding Program.
“This program is a key example of our administration’s commitment to partnering with communities to improve local economic opportunities and neighborhood connectivity through investments in transportation,” said Gov. Charlie Baker. “We are proud that the Commonwealth’s cities and towns continue to prioritize infrastructure that allows people to more safely and easily reach the places they need to go.”